I watched SINGLE ROOM FURNISHED as part of BCI Eclipse' Drive-in Cult Classics (featuring Crown International Pictures releases) on DVD. This one stands out for its dullness.

Johnnie's (Joanne) young husband (no doubt a latent-homosexual) abandons her to go to sea with a pal that joined the Navy four months earlier.

After changing her name to Mae (and, dying her hair), she is pregnant. Desperate, she throws herself at the dysfunctionally shy, overweight salesman, who lives downstairs.

After proposing (he feels sorry for her), he realizes his true love for the plain fisherman's daughter; and, proposes to her in a bid for matrimonial happiness. He dumps Mae over the phone from the bar.

She then changes her name to Eileen; and, is left with a string of 'suitors' who become so numerous that even she has to regard herself as a prostitute. The only men in her life are emotionally unstable boys willing to kill themselves over her, or crass traveling salesmen out for a good time!

That may not sound too bad, but SINGLE ROOM FURNISHED is one very unattractive, badly acted, badly written movie.

Jayne Mansfield does have acting ability, but her choice of material is rotten, and the wordy and florid soliloquies here make everyone come off like idiots.

The scenes are far too long; the production values are so poor that the very good image and color quality of this disc just makes the sets and scenery look like what they are, almost-entirely undecorated flats. The costumes are no better.